The path to 270 electoral votes
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🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week, The Washington Post's Libby Casey and James Hohmann are joined by national political reporter Michael Scherer to discuss how Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump could each win the presidential election in November. The crew breaks down their potential paths to victory, and how each is presenting themselves to voters, with just over three weeks left until Election Day.
Then, Washington Post data scientist Lenny Bronner joins the show to explain The Post's polling average, and which states he's following closely in the final weeks of the campaign.
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| 0:00.0 | We are not going back. |
| 0:01.0 | We got to do this. |
| 0:04.0 | Make America great again. |
| 0:07.0 | How can you be against? |
| 0:08.0 | We are not going back. Welcome to sidebar from the Washington Post. I'm your host Libby Casey and I'm joined this week by my political partner in all things |
| 0:24.5 | James Homan columnist and editorial writer and our special guest National |
| 0:29.1 | Political reporter Michael Sheer Michael thank you so much for being with us |
| 0:32.3 | so today we're going to talk about just what Michael Shear, Michael, thank you so much for being with us. |
| 0:33.0 | So today we're going to talk about just what a billion dollars gets you |
| 0:36.7 | on a campaign trail this year. |
| 0:38.9 | We're going to dive into some of Michael's reporting from the trail |
| 0:41.4 | and also from talking to the campaigns. |
| 0:44.0 | And we're going to try to tackle this big question that of course everyone wants to know the answer |
| 0:47.6 | to, which is who will win the presidential race and what does it really take to get there? |
| 0:52.3 | We'll talk about the energy on the campaign trail. presidential race and what does it really take to get there. |
| 0:52.8 | We'll talk about the energy on the campaign trail, how things are trending, and we'll talk |
| 0:57.0 | about whether the two candidates at the top of the ticket are succeeding in running the kinds of campaigns they want to. |
| 1:04.0 | We'll also look specifically at the path to victory needing those 270 electoral votes, |
| 1:10.0 | and for that we'll be joined by our principal data scientist Lenny Brauner. |
| 1:14.0 | But first, let's start with the news that's really dominating the headlines right now, which |
| 1:17.8 | are the double hurricanes that the South has had to deal with. |
| 1:20.8 | So right now people aren't just getting their news from turning on the television they're getting their news through all sorts of other sources and Twitter is a wash in BS right now just total crazy conspiracy theories and falsehoods about the hurricane and |
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